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Amazon.com was sued on Tuesday in a proposed nationwide class action accusing the retailer of systematically discriminating against thousands of pregnant employees, including by firing some it claimed took too much time off. According to a complaint filed by four … Source: Claims Journal

A federal judge has declined to approve a class action lawsuit accusing GEICO of underpaying losses for totaled vehicles in New Jersey. The court declined to approve the class after concluding that individual issues outweighed the commonality of the proposed … Source: Claims Journal

Artificial intelligence use is surging on farms as growers look for some high-tech help in planning and managing operations after years of scaling back on spending, according to McKinsey & Co. Some 17% of the world’s farmers now use generative … Source: Claims Journal

The wildfires that plagued Washington for nearly half the summer put new Insurance Commissioner Patty Kuderer and her office to a test. Kuderer has been in office for over a year-and-a-half. However, she’s relatively new considering her predecessor, Washington Commissioner … Source: Claims Journal

The $320 million hack of the Bitcoin-linked Liquid Network is another dent to crypto’s reputation as the industry tries to convince banks and institutional investors that digital assets can become part of mainstream financial infrastructure. The damage extends beyond the … Source: Claims Journal

Hurricane Lowell passed west of Hawaii, where heavy rains may cause hundreds of millions of dollars of damage. Lowell, with top winds of 105 miles (169 kilometers) per hour, edged west of Kauai but is still dropping heavy rain, as … Source: Claims Journal

The Seattle Times and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft on Friday, alleging in federal court that the tech companies copied the newspapers’ journalism without permission to train their AI systems. The suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern … Source: Claims Journal

BASF sued Apple on Thursday, accusing the iPhone maker of infringing the German chemical company’s patented face authentication technology in many iPhone and iPad models. In its complaint, BASF’s trinamiX unit said it spent the last decade developing technology to … Source: Claims Journal

British police have a stout task ahead: recovering 70,000 pints worth of stolen Guinness. Two trailer truckloads of the famously creamy dark beer valued at 115,000 pounds ($155,000) were stolen from a depot near Liverpool in northwest England, the Cheshire … Source: Claims Journal

Tesla Inc. rolled out the Cybercab for its robotaxi service almost two years after the driverless car was unveiled, advancing Elon Musk’s futuristic vision while drawing fresh scrutiny from U.S. auto regulators. The closed-door launch in Austin last week was … Source: Claims Journal